I was reading VF Daily today when I came across David Roberts’ post on global warming. I could have ghost written the piece since it so closely mirrors my opinions on global warming:
The things environmentalists are trying to do in response to global warming make sense to do even if there is, in fact, no [...]
Considering oil is not a renewable resource in the human experience, peak oil — the point in which petroleum production peaks and forever declines — is a certainty. The question therefore is not whether it’s true or not but when we will reach it. Joseph Romm over at Salon makes the case that peak oil [...]
“An oil crisis is coming, and sooner than most people think. We need to act now. Unfortunately, we are behaving in ways that suggest we do not know there is a serious problem.” – [...]
From the The Economist:
Nowadays, new oil tends to be found in relatively inaccessible spots or in more unwieldy forms. That adds to the cost of extracting oil, because more engineers and more complex machinery are needed to exploit it—but the end of easy oil is a far remove from the jeremiads of peak-oilers. The gooey [...]
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